Over the weekend, news broke that President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, who conveniently occupies a made-up job that does not require Senate confirmation, had been probed by both the Department of Justice and the FBI for allegedly taking $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as contractors.
Homan will almost certainly never see any consequences for accepting this apparent bribe, and while he owes the biggest debt to Trump’s DOJ, which reportedly killed the investigation, he should also send the Supreme Court a thank-you note. He couldn’t have done it without them.
In any other administration, this would be a five-alarm fire. But in Trump’s White House, it’s just run-of-the-mill corruption. The White House straight-up denied that Homan took the $50,000, with White House